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Amusement Device (open access)

Amusement Device

Patent for an amusement device. This invention is designed as an apparatus for a swing, a trapeze, a horizontal bar, and seesaw. Illustration included.
Date: December 18, 1906
Creator: Haye, August, of San Antonio, Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Phonograph-Machine. (open access)

Phonograph-Machine.

Patent for a new phonograph machine with improvements of sound-box-transversing mechanisms and uniformity of movements, including illustrations.
Date: April 17, 1906
Creator: Dubinski, Benjamin.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard (open access)

Cattle Guard

Patent for a cattle guard. "This invention is a cattle guard having transverse drainage conduits with overhanging plates and so proportioned that the foot of an animal will be projected into the conduit" (lines 13-17). Illustration included.
Date: June 26, 1906
Creator: Lee, Jacob Martin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Line-Holder and Cylindrical Type-Chase (open access)

Line-Holder and Cylindrical Type-Chase

Patent for a "combined line holder and cylindrical type chase" (p. 1, lines 10-11) to allow typesetting by unskilled workers.
Date: July 31, 1906
Creator: Weeks, Frank W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lawn-Rocker. (open access)

Lawn-Rocker.

Patent for a lawn rocker improvement that provides swing and is durable and inexpensive.
Date: July 17, 1906
Creator: Coffy, Ida May
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock (open access)

Lock

Patent for a lock. Illustration included.
Date: November 6, 1906
Creator: Katzenberger, Oscar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Line Holder and Type Chase (open access)

Line Holder and Type Chase

Patent for a line-holder and type-chase, intended to make possible rapid and easy setting of type by unskilled people.
Date: July 31, 1906
Creator: Weeks, Frank W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press (open access)

Hay Press

Patent for a hay press. This invention is a form of baling press that operates on a continuously reciprocated as hay is fed into the press chamber. Illustrations included.
Date: February 20, 1906
Creator: Lorenz, Alexander & Illg, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Signal System. (open access)

Electrical Signal System.

Patent for an improved electrical signal system which can help ascertain "the position of a train or other obstruction on a railway-track ... at either terminal" (lines 14-16), including an illustration.
Date: March 6, 1906
Creator: Lacroix, Fred
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Signal System. (open access)

Electrical Signal System.

Patent for an electrical system "whereby the position of a train anywhere between the ends of a track can be ascertained at either terminal" (lines 14-16).
Date: March 6, 1906
Creator: Lacroix, Fred
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Signaling-Lantern. (open access)

Railway Signaling-Lantern.

Patent for a railway-signaling lantern designed with a U-shaped handle for easier handling, and safer signaling, with illustrations.
Date: June 19, 1906
Creator: Moore, Thomas Lindsay
System: The Portal to Texas History
Permutation-Lock. (open access)

Permutation-Lock.

Patent for improvements and simplification of the permutation lock including a latch-bolt slidable case and a tumbler-shaft journaled in a side wall of the case.
Date: July 10, 1906
Creator: Katzenberger, Oscar.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nailless Horseshoe (open access)

Nailless Horseshoe

Patent for horseshoe with extended sides that will bend inward to fit the shape of the horse hoof and that will be secured by screwing on nuts to pre-attached bolts on ears pressed against the hoof. Invention is a light and adjustable shoe that can be put on without the use of nails and can be removed at any time.
Date: June 5, 1906
Creator: King, Alphonse
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pipe Grip (open access)

Pipe Grip

Patent for pipe grip. Illustration included.
Date: July 24, 1906
Creator: Griffin, Claud Champ
System: The Portal to Texas History